Youth will be served — as victims — in three movies in the theaters this week (four if you include the re-release of Titanic in 3D): The Hunger Games, Bully, and The Cabin in the Woods, the last being the most ingenious, entertaining, and sadistic. Generations of parodies have diluted horror movie conventions to inanity, but Drew Goddard's ingenious contrivance (Joss Whedon co-wrote) takes you through the familiar paces and then opens a trapdoor. A bunch of stereotypical college types — bimbo, jock, doper, smart girl, smart guy — arrange to party in the title hovel. The expected happens, but with a twist. The twists won't surprise anyone familiar with paranoid scenarios like TheTruman Show, or the works of H.P. Lovecraft; more disturbing is the filmmakers' sheer glee in both subverting and vindicating the genre, demonstrating how horror films function as distractions from the horrors of real life.

Review: Shrink Dr. Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey), the psychiatrist-to-the-stars of the title, has written a bestselling book on how to be happy. But — go figure — he isn't happy himself.

Review: Scenes from a Parish James Rutenbeck's modest, old-fashioned, simply shot documentary is exactly the right way to tell a story of old-time verities and virtues, daily life in a Catholic parish in Lawrence

Ring master At its best, Tyson becomes its subject's psychotherapist, allowing him to disgorge with no judgment and little restraint his memories, fantasies, impulses, and fears.

Review: The Merry Gentleman In his startling directorial debut, Michael Keaton plays a mysterious figure moving among big city shadows.

Review: Tokyo Sonata J-horror maestro Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to Akira) begins his timely, if atypical, tale with the downsizing of Japanese patriarch Ryuhei Sasaki from his administrative post.

Review: Next Day Air Wood Harris, so supremely menacing as Avon Barksdale in The Wire , plays Guch, a hood so boneheaded, he robs a bank but forget to take the money.

Review: Sleep Dealer Just when you thought Mexican cinema had lost its edge with films like Rudo y Cursi , along comes an ambitious and intelligent offering like this dystopic fable from Alex Rivera.

Review: The Garden The title of Scott Hamilton Kennedy's complex, provocative, ultimately uplifting documentary invariably calls to mind Genesis, and parallels can be drawn.